Research

Two Research Experience for Undergraduates ran at UMass Engineering over the summer of 2022 and a third has recently been approved for NSF funding.

BusinessWest has recognized the Elaine Marieb Center for Nursing and Engineering Innovation as part of its Healthcare Heroes series.

MIE postdoctoral researcher Jeannine Blake has been awarded a fellowship from the American Society for Engineering Education to study IV smart pumps. 

Cathal Kearney, an assistant professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, has been awarded a grant of $1.91 million from the NIH. 

A research team led by Jun Yao has invented nano-electronic sensors capable of probing electrical and mechanical cellular responses in cardiac tissue.

Joseph Bardin, a professor in the UMass Amherst Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, has won the IEEE Microwave Magazine Best Paper Award.

Hung is developing a non-toxic manufacturing process for separation membranes that can be used in everything from water purification to kidney dialysis. 

CEE researchers will study better ways to retrofit older reinforced buildings so that communities often subjected to earthquakes can return quickly to normal. 

Hari Balasubramanian is working with a coalition in New Jersey to better deliver care to patients facing physical, mental, and socio-economic challenges. 

MIE Assistant Professor Jinglei Ping obtains Air Force instrumentation grant to purchase an essential atomic-scale, thin-film processing system for $150,000.

Blair Perot has been awarded a U.S. Patent for the trailblazing concept of a “Wind Turbine Airfoil Structure for Increasing Wind Farm Efficiency."

Yu Chen of the Biomedical Engineering (BME) Department is a member of two research teams that each received a $50,000 pilot grant from the UMCCTS.